Grab Your Six Shooters! Time To Saddle Up For Some Western Action! I love the western genre. As a kid, these classic movies were all over TV at all hours of the day and night…starring some of America’s heroes, like… Read More ›
cult films of the 70’s
Studly “Superfly”! Sexy “Sheba”! Blaxploitation’s Sexiest Stars! Pam Grier! Shaft!
“The Heat’s On In The Street For This Bad Mama – But She’s Doin’ The Cooking!” How can you resist a film with that promo? You can’t of course, especially when Blaxploitation super star Pam Grier is in it! The… Read More ›
James Taylor’s ONLY Movie! Starring A Beach Boy! The Cult Counter-Culture Classic “Two Lane Blacktop”!
James Taylor’s ONLY Movie Role! There is nothing more exhilarating for a movie buff than finding an obscure masterpiece – especially when it stars James Taylor AND the late Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson! Time to celebrate one of the… Read More ›
Rated “X” By An All-White Jury! The Incendiary “Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song!” Blaxploitation’s Brilliant Godfather!
“Rated ‘X’ By An All-White Jury!” At a time when Hollywood is under scrutiny for for what some as as Oscar failing to adequately acknowledge the film “Selma”, it’s important to remember “The Godfather of Blaxploitation”, the brilliant Melvin Van… Read More ›
Forgotten Movie Sexcapades! Big Stars! “Inserts” And “Labors Of Love!”
Boy Wonder: OK, Miss Cake, let us see exactly how far down into it we can get. Cathy Cake: Uh, into what? Boy Wonder: Into the valley of indecency. Sex! Nudity! Big Stars! Hollywood’s 70’s Sexcapades! If you are a… Read More ›
Female Empowerment Indeed! “Foxy Brown”! “Cleopatra Jones”! Blaxploitation’s Kick-Ass Women!
Time to celebrate a classic genre of 70’s film, and celebrate two women who not only broke racial barriers by starring in these films, but they scored big at the box office as well! First up: FOXY BROWN! Michael Anderson:… Read More ›
SHOCKING “Frenzy”! Drowning Alfred Hitchcock! The Master Of Suspense!
“Do I look like a sex murderer to you? Can you imagine me creeping around London, strangling all those women with ties? That’s ridiculous… For a start, I only own two.” Alfred Hitchcock was a master of horror and suspense… Read More ›
Richard Pryor! Brilliantly Funny! Violently Dramatic! New Showtime Doc!
Time To Remember The Funniest Man Of All Time! Richard Pryor was a brilliant standup comic, actor and personality. He was also volatile – biographies of Pryor tell many of these stories – and he had a tragic personal life… Read More ›
Valdez Is Coming! Lawman! Gun-Blazing Burt Lancaster Western Revenge Double Bill!
I’ll tell you, Lucas, if I had somewhere to run, I’d run. But I don’t, so I’ll stand. In the mood for some classic western revenge? With a big Hollywood star? “Tell him: Valdez is coming.” When Burt Lancaster tells… Read More ›
Sex, Violence and Diane Keaton! The Provocative “Looking For Mr. Goodbar”!
Diane Keaton Like You’ve NEVER Seen Her Before! You don’t see those words used much any more, but in the 1970’s, it was true – this WAS a Diane Keaton performance that broke all the rules – it was an… Read More ›